Topics of the Week. At Wallsend Mr Reid has been un burdening his soul on the subject of the Upper House. When the two Chambers were in disagreement the other dav bis references to the Council were niost respectful nnd conciliatory; It was right from the Premier's point of view that. they .should, be. so, for uothing was to be' gained ; but, on thu coutrary,' much to be lost, by waving a flaming sword. The Council, however, having stuck to the position it had taken up from the beginning; Mr Reid seized tlie.fi ret opportunity' to express his real -en'iinents cone rn ing the majority of the members. That occurred in connection with a musical carnival, ^vhich was.legun. at. -Valls.- oud; called the Esteddford. The word is neither English, Irish, or-' Scotch ; nor yet Chinese or Magyar. It is Welsh, and, what it means only Welsh people know ; and perhaps even many of them are ignorant on the subject. The Premier intended to squirt an infu-' sion of what he culls the democratic element ...

What a Woman Can Do. -She can sharpen a poneil if you give hir plenty of time and plenty of penoils. She can dance all night in a pair of ehoes two iMzes too small for her, and enjoy overv injuule of the lime. She can puss a display window of a draper's shop '.without stoppine — if she is running to catch a train. She can swnlk half the night with a noisy baby in her arms without once expressing a do sire to murder the infunt, Sho can ap preciate a ki(.-o from her husbind seveuty five years after the marriage ceren ony has taken plnee. She can suffer abuse and neglect for years, which one touch of kind ness or consideration will drive from recol lection. She can go to church and after wards: tell you what every woman in the congregation had on, and in rare instances can give a faint idea of what the text was. She can look her husband square in the eye when ho tells her some cock and bull story about being ' detiiinsd in the office' with out betraying in the least that she knowB him ...

Did You Gat Your Notice? It's a queer thing whon you think of it, 'ut naturo seems to bavo provided for and nerves us with a noMco nny time anything s;ops wrong in our mechanism of life, for intunco tho kidneys and very important organs they aro too, as filters of our blotto - it means (hut unless they do their duty (hi' blood is not blood but poison. You doirt want poiBoned blood to puns all tnrou^h tb: body and bring on ulUorta of diseases if you tuow it, and horc h where tho notion comet in. When the kidneys fail the buck aches. the urino shows ! rices of diso-der, it is too dark colored, has a sedimont whon lrfi standing, or somolimes onuses pain in passage. The notice nmy bo served in any or all of thpan conditions but it bohores y-m to pay no-no atlenti m so it. Lots of peuplo here in Cobar can tell you what to do. Read this— Mr William Campbell, of Talbrauar St., speaks in this manner. I am employed at Fitzgibbons' bootmokers establishment and havo been in .ho district for se...

Standing First in the Whole World. The Hop? 0' the Ailing and Miserable Sverywhere Bill's ill? PILLS. He Despair of Imitators— The Admiration of all Users. We wero tho leaders— the first in the world to keep a distinctively kidney pill treatment on the market, and this was named Dodd's Kidney Pills, This was a trifle less than a dozen years ago. We said then that Dodd's Kidney Pills would cure any curable kidney dis ease, and that they had come to stay. Wo now Bay that Dodd's Kidney Pills will cure any kidney disease, and we have testimony from thonsands of per sons ouroil at various stagea. . Yes, Dodd'a Kidney Pills have more thun kept every promise. We have advertised two years for the particulars of any case wherein they had ever failed but thus far without a single reply. Wo have constantly aimed to reach and benefit the masses. Wo want every siok man or woman in Australia to know that all but one in every twenty who are siok cap bo cured by kidney treatment. Comparatively only...

Samoan Trouble. Fight With the Natives, fitish and Americans Ambushed hree Officers and four Sailors Killed. Germans Urge Natives on. | ? El Svdnfiv. TlVirln.v aSamoan news is to hand to April 1. j:|On that day an encounter took place |ween a joint British and American |:|co and hostile natives. An oxpedi f.|n consisting qf 100 men under Lieut | jieman, ot H.M.S. Tauranga, was | jjbushed by 800 nativps on a German |y|ntation. I ^'tenants Freeman and Lansdale I Ensign Monahan, of tho warsbip Jplolphia wore all killed. Ensign Babun went back to asqistLiout . wlsdalo, but was shot as he was re ; H,'. The natives forced tho expedi ; Htorotiro to tho beach. j jg.o British and two American sail Bjero killed and 27 natives. I Wo heads of the three officers wore j ltd, and aftorwards brought into I j§by French priests. m manager of the German plan H has been urrestod and detained I'} tho Tauranga. He was sson pS the natives to fight. More Eussian peace proposals ? Massing troops on tho Germ...

FEDERATION. Passes all Stages in the Assembly. Sydney the Seat of the Senate. Council Obstuction not Anticipated. Friday. In the Assembly the Enabling Bill has passed all its stages. The Premier says that in all proba bility the first temporary seat of Go vernment of the Federal Union will bo Sydney from the very moment I'm person acting as Governor-Gem i a arrives in Australia. Tbere was abso lutply not one word in the Constitution to prevent this being done. In tho event of union, tho Premier of the leading colony will probably bo .sent for to. form a. Federal Government. '?This would have a deal to do in dp ciding where tho temporary seat of Government would be. The opinion is gaining ground that the Bill will be nq longer obstructed in the Council. Even should it come to a trial of strength, it is believed that the Go? vernment supporters in that Chamber will outnumber the anti-billites.

Parliamentary. . Parliament oyenod on Tuesday last, when the Lieutenant Governor's speech was read, and on Wednesday the Address-in-Reply was agreed on. Mr Barton adversely criticised the recent appointments to the Upper House. Enumerating the names, he asserted that several had been associ ated in the past with tho anti-Bill League and condemned the action of tho Premier iu seeking pledges from the appointees. He claims that men should have been selected from know ledge of their views and actions in the past. He would not, however, move a vote of censure, because, although such action might elevate him to tho Trea sury benches, it would play into the hands of the enemies of Federation and delay the consummation of union. Men should not havo been appointed because they belonged to any pirtici lar class, but men of any class should be eligible, providing they possess the necessary qualifications. Mr Reid, in reply to Mr Lyno, said he would consider the matter of laying on the table t...

Three Doctors in Consultation. From Bonjamin Franklin. ' Wheu you are sick, what you like beat is to bo chogen as a medicine in the first place ; what experience tells you ie best, to be chosen in the second place ; what reason (i.e., Theory) says, is bebt to be cboBen in the last place. But if you an get Dr Inclination, Dr Experience and Dr Reason to hold a consultation to gether, they will gire you the best advice that can be taken.' When you have a bad cold Dr In clination wou'd recommend Cbamber liin's Cough Remedy because it ie pleasant and safe to take; Dr Ex uerience would recommend it b-.'cuut-e t never fails to effect a speedy and permanent curp. Dr Season would recommend it because it is prepared oq scientific principles, nnd acts on nature's plan in relieving tbe lungs, opening tbe secretions and restoring the system to a natural and health; condition, For sale by H. Dalgarno, Chemist, Cobar.

Wolfe's Schnapps, THE EQUITY SUIT. A SETTLEMENT AEBIVED AT. The Equity matter of tho Udolpho Wolfe Co v Arthur Bickard, in which an injunc tion was recently granted against, thu -ls- fendant pending the hearing of the ruif., was mentioned before tho Chief Juduo in Equity this morning, when Mr F'101 Kskod that a decree might bo made by i.'innc.nl, in the terras of paragraphs 1, 2, 'i':uid « of the prayer in the statement of Ai'iti. The details of these furiitr,,'r-hn wero — (1) That tho defendurij ',?.?.* servants and iigeiit', may le restrained liy induction from infringing tho ritrhtu of tho plaintiff com puny ur.dpr the eaid respective trade murks (asdettilod in the statement of oluim'.l ; (2) thut the defender' :., his eorvonts and a«ents, may be re liainpd by injunction, fiom im porting or silling, or offoring for sale, -chrnpp- pi!.'' up for salo in the m.inner eomplttinod of, or in uny o'hor manner bo closely reser.ililinpihut in which the schnapps of tin* plaintiff r-ompnny a...

A Fight with an Alligator. The Eoyal Humane Sooiety has granted a medal to Subadah Shamas Khan, of the 1st Uganda Rifles, for rescuing a comrade from the jaws of an alligator in September last. This circumstance- ib wnrfth a tint* His Lordship Bishop Benjamin Arnett, DsD.,.of Wilberforee. Ohio, U.S.A., makes -i noU of an equally interesting circumstance «hen he write* : — ' To whom it may concern : In April, 1894, while on my way home fiom Phila ?lelphia, I caught. a very, severe cold, which soon developed into rlmuiatism. It wns impossible for me to rest by day or Bleep at nigl.fc. About tbo 1st of June I 'wns com ' polled to lake to my bed, where I. n muirud tor some time. Whin I waa able to j;i-t ud, 1 could only gvt, about by the use '(if crutches. The fail cams on, and the rheumatism grew wow, lastinjr all through the winter of '94 and '95. I suffered as I never suffered before. I thought. that the spring would bring me relief, but it did not j consequently I was forced to ennc...

Taxing Agency Sales. Friday. &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Merchants are considerably exercised at the decision of the Income Tax &amp;nbsp; Commissioners to levy a 5 per cent. &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; tax on the gross sales of agency lines for the last two years. &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;

An Enterprising Chemist. We desire to call our readers' attention to the fact that H. Dalgarno has obtained the local agency for the celebrated Chamber- lains' Medicines, which are manufac- tured by the Chamberlain Medicine Co., Dee Moines, Iowa, U.S.A. This company is one of the oldest and most reliable in America, and come highly recommended to the people of Cobar, and to make their remedies a household medicine through this district they have made an advertising contract which will appear in the columns of this paper during the next year. The line of remedies they manu- &amp;nbsp; facture is of a class that should be found in every home, since they are for the most common ailments such aa every family have use for some time during the year. They are : — Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrohea Remedy. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, Chamberlain's Pain Balm. &amp;nbsp; Sold at 1s. 6d. for small sizes ; 3s. &amp;nbsp; for large sizes.

Large Cheque Found. Friday. &amp;nbsp; A registered letter, containing a crossed cheque for £1000, which was sent by a solicitor in England to an address in London, was found in the folds of a newspapor received in Bris- bane.

Settlers' Relief. Friday. The Board to administer the Set- tlers' Relief Act consists of Messrs J. M'Master, O. Brandis, and Robert W. Hardie. &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; The Regulations will be ready by Saturday, with forms on which to make application. The Board will commence its duties on Monday. &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;

Closed Down. Friday. &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; The Sydney Meat preserving Com- pany has decided to close down their works at Auburn. &amp;nbsp; Several hundred men will be thrown out of employment. &amp;nbsp;